“Alexey will come in and frequently provide his feedback, mostly as a game designer. It’s really funny and somewhat impartial because he knows ‘Tetris’ so well and it’s so near and dear to him. But as a game designer, he kind of forgets that and says ‘is this game fun?’" Alexey specifically won’t go through each element and tell us ‘you just can’t do that,’” His feedback is critical but I can’t say he would actually stop any particular development. I’m sure that if he was really adamant, we would know about it without question.” - Tetris Online VP of marketing Casey Pelkey

It's really nice to see that Mr. Pajitnov is still involved with Tetris after so many years. There was a long time there where he wasn't seeing any cash from the license, but those days have long since passed.

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